As France’s muslim population continues to grow, I’m sure they are all about nuclear.
Green fades. Cold sucks. Energy prices rising enough is changing hearts and minds — and wallets.
How much Time and Water is wasted washing Garbage so they can call it Recycling ?
Smart move. They can make beaucoup bucks selling electricity to the tree worshiping Allemandes.
Good for them.
The USA should import some of there technology and get on with a similar program.
I’m going to add Nuke Plants to my short list of products where the French have shined [Wine, Skis, Tires].
A ray of sanity in a dark, insane world.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has moved the energy arguments to the right, and advocates for nuclear have been empowered.
Many on the left had already been opening up to nuclear and the winter scare of 2022 moved a lot of public opinion on the need for realistic energy answers.
France has been a million times more sensible about this than the Germans. Supposed “greens” can’t object to ZERO EMISSION Nuclear energy - which actually works in delivering enough energy reliably enough.
Isn’t France heavy on breeder reactors? Maybe they CAN’T quit.
We went Uranium, they went Plutonium was what I thought.
Uranium has been a great investment over the past 18 months...
We need to spend $3 trillion to ensure our energy future:
$1T to replace the ~100 aging reactors in place;
$1T to build an additional 100 reactors to step up the percentage of nuke in the electric supply;
$1T to build out the distribution system in the grid and harden the grid against attack.
This will take about 20 years.
I would also advocate standardizing on 2-3 reactor designs and establishing a Nuclear Operator cadre of highly paid ex-Navy NUPOC people to run the reactors.
But, I am not POTUS.
Whatever happened to the The Paris Agreement? It’s a legally binding international treaty on climate change. It was adopted by 196 Parties at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, France, on 12 December 2015. It entered into force on 4 November 2016.
And did France get the go-ahead from the recent Davos gathering? Oh, they must get the approval from the recent Davos gathering. One moment please - yes, they just reconvened after one of their many concubine sessions. Must be pretty tuckered out after all that.
And ze bugs! How does this effect the millions of recipes currently being whipped up with ze bugs? Maybe ze bugs will stay warm inside the nuclear power plants. Someone knows the answer to all these finer points...
Looks like Poland is getting ready to build a new nuclear plant. The other day I happened to see a job posting where Bechtel is hiring engineers and technical people for the project.
Nuclear is by far the best “clean” energy.
There is a very emotional fear of Nukes, but nuclear energy is the safest energy around.
The documented losses from nuclear radiation are actually around 500 people in the whole world since the 1900. About a year of Chicago warfare!
And yes, that’s including Hiroshima and Chernobyl as well as few minor accidents! (In Hiroshima, it is documented that over 300 people actually died of the radiation, the rest just burned alive!)
“...each nuclear reactor typically generates the same amount of power as 431 utility-scale wind turbines or 3.1 million solar panels. In addition to being less productive than nuclear and fossil fuels, renewables are unreliable.”
Children, before you run off with these numbers, keep in mind several things:
1. For wind, the turbines need to be multiplied by about 4, to account for the unreliability of the wind. For solar, roughly 4.5 times (but varies significantly with location).
2. For both, you need battery backup if you want the power 24/7, and due to the inefficiencies of moving power (really energy) to batteries and then back out of the batters, the above numbers increase to roughly 5 and 5.5 times.
3. The comparison is for ONE nuclear reactor. That is very rare for a nuke plant, as economies of scale almost always mean 2+ reactors, sometimes up to 6 (maybe 8, not sure) reactors. So, an even BIGGER multiplication factor.
So, in the end, one nuclear plant (multiple reactors) would need a HUGE battery pack, plus, maybe 4000 huge wind turbines or 40 Million solar panels (or a combination of the two) to replace it with ‘renewable’ power.